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1、爱读书的孩子越来越少了怎么办？Cue the hand-wringing about digital distraction: Fewer children are reading books frequently for fun, according to a new report released Thursday by Scholastic, the childrens book publisher.为数字设备强大的分心效果痛心疾首吧。根据儿童图书出版商学乐教育集团(Scholastic)前不久发布的一份新报告，为享受乐趣而频繁读书的孩子比以前更少了。In a 2014 survey o
2、f just over 1,000 children ages 6 to 17, only 31 percent said they read a book for fun almost daily, down from 37 percent four years ago.在 2014 年针对大约 1000 名 6 岁至 17 岁孩子进行的一项调查中，仅有 31%的受访者表示，他们几乎每天都会为获得乐趣而读书，这一比例较 4 年前的 37%有所下降。There were some consistent patterns among the heavier readers: For the yo
3、unger children ages 6 to 11 being read aloud to regularly and having restricted online time were correlated with frequent reading; for the older children ages 12 to 17 one of the largest predictors was whether they had time to read on their own during the school day.这些阅读量较大的孩子呈现出一些一致的模式：对于年幼的孩子（6 岁至
4、 11 岁）来说，时常听父母大声朗读，并限制上网时间，与频繁阅读呈正相关。而对于年龄较大的孩子（12 岁至 17 岁）来说，最大的预测指标之一是，他们在校期间是否有时间自主阅读。The finding about reading aloud to children long after toddlerhood may come as a surprise to some parents who read books to children at bedtime when they were very young but then tapered off. Last summer, the Am
5、erican Academy of Pediatrics announced a new policy recommending that all parents read to their children from birth.给早已过了学步期的小孩大声朗读，竟然能够产生如此好的效果。一些家长在孩子很小的时候，经常在睡前给他们读书，但随后逐渐减少。这项发现或许会让他们感到惊讶。美国儿科研究院(American Academy of Pediatrics) 去年夏天宣布了一项新政策，建议所有家长在小孩出生后给他们朗读。“A lot of parents assume that once ki
6、ds begin to read independently, that now that is the best thing for them to do,” said Maggie McGuire, the vice president for a website for parents operated by Scholastic.玛吉麦圭尔(Maggie McGuire)在学乐教育集团专门为家长创建的一家网站担任副总裁。她说，“很多家长认为，一旦孩子开始独立阅读，他们就算大功告成了。”But reading aloud through elementary school seemed
7、to be connected to a love of reading generally. According to the report, 41 percent of frequent readers ages 6 to 10 were read aloud to at home, while only 13 percent of infrequent readers were being read to.但在孩子的整个小学阶段坚持给他们朗读，似乎有助于培养其热爱读书的习惯。这份报告显示，在 6 岁至 10 岁的孩子中，41%的频繁阅读者经常在家听父母朗读，而仅有 13%的非频繁阅读者正
8、在接受这种熏陶。Scholastic, which operates book fairs in schools and publishes popular childrens books including the Harry Potter and Captain Underpants series, has been commissioning the “Kids and Family Reading Report” since 2006. For the first time this year, the report, conducted by YouGov, a market res
9、earch firm, looked at predictors that children of different ages would be frequent readers, defined as children who read books for fun five or more days a week.学乐教育集团经常在学校举办图书展，出版过许多风靡一时的儿童读物，其中包括哈利波特(Harry Potter)和内裤超人(Captain Underpants)系列图书。自 2006 年以来，这家公司一直委托研究机构制作儿童与家庭阅读报告(Kids and Family Readi
10、ng Report)。这份由市场研究公司 YouGov 制作的报告，今年首次关注那些能够预测不同年龄段的孩子是否将成为频繁阅读者的指标。所谓“频繁阅读者”是指每周五天（或更多天数）会为享受乐趣而读书的孩子。Kristen Harmeling, a partner at YouGov who worked on the report, said that children in the survey frequently cited reading aloud as a special bonding time with their parents. As children age, “I do
11、nt think that parents know how important that time and the role that it plays in childrens lives,” she said.参与这项研究的 YouGov 公司合伙人克里斯汀哈梅林(Kristen Harmeling)指出，许多受访的孩子都认为，听父母朗读是一段特殊的亲密时刻。随着孩子一天天长大，“我不认为父母真正明白这段时间的重要意义，以及它在孩子的生活中扮演的角色，”她说。Of course, children who love to read are generally immersed in ho
12、useholds with lots of books and parents who like to read. So while parents who read to their children later in elementary school may encourage those children to become frequent readers on their own, such behavior can also result from “a whole constellation of other things that goes on in those famil
13、ies,” said Timothy Shanahan, professor emeritus of urban education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a past president of the International Reading Association.当然，爱读书的孩子通常来自拥有许多书籍，父母都喜欢读书的家庭。因此，尽管父母在孩子上小学高年级时坚持给他们朗读，或许有助于鼓励他们成为主动拿起书本的频繁阅读者，但这种行为也有可能产生自“这些书香门第发生的其他一系列事情。”伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校(Univers
14、ity of Illinois at Chicago)城市教育学荣誉教授，国际阅读协会(International Reading Association)前会长蒂莫西沙纳汉(Timothy Shanahan)说。There is not yet strong research that connects reading aloud at older ages to improved reading comprehension. But some literacy experts said that when parents or teachers read aloud to children
15、 even after they can read themselves, the children can hear more complex words or stories than they might tackle themselves.目前还没有强有力的研究成果显示，给较大年龄的小孩大声朗读，有助于提高他们的阅读能力。但一些识字专家表示，甚至在小孩能够独立阅读之后，如果父母或老师继续给他们朗读，这些孩子就能够听到一些他们依靠自身能力还无法掌握的复杂单词或故事。“Its this idea of marinating children in higher-level vocabula
16、ry,” said Pam Allyn, founder of LitWorld.Org, a nonprofit group that works to increase literacy among young people. “The read-aloud can really lift the child.”LitWorld.Org 是一家致力于提高年轻人识字水平的非营利性组织，其创始人帕姆阿林(Pam Allyn)表示，“这就是让孩子接受更高级别词汇熏陶的理念。听大声朗读，真的能够提升孩子的阅读能力。”Other literacy experts say the real value of reading to children is helping to develop background knowledge in all kinds of topics as well as exposure to sophisticated language.
